Promise Boys

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Nick Brooks’s Promise Boys is a trailblazing, blockbuster YA mystery about three teen boys of colour who must investigate their principal’s murder to clear their own names. For fans of Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, and Karen McManus.

The Urban Promise Prep School vows to turn boys into men. As students, J.B., Ramón, and Trey are forced to follow the prestigious “program’s” strict rules. Extreme discipline, they’ve been told, is what it takes to be college bound, to avoid the fates of many men in their neighborhoods. This, the Principal Moore Method, supposedly saves lives.

But when Moore ends up murdered and the cops come sniffing around, the trio emerges as the case’s prime suspects. With all three maintaining their innocence, they must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested. But is the true culprit hiding among them?

This gripping thriller shines a glaring light on how the system too often condemns Black and Latinx teen boys to failure before they’ve even had a chance at success.

‘Thrilling . . . Promise Boys will stay with you long after the last page’ – Karen M. McManus, author of One of Us Is Lying

ISBN: 9781035003150

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Jason Reynolds meets Karen McManus in this blockbuster YA mystery thriller that follows three boys of colour at a Washington DC charter school who are forced to investigate their principal’s murder in a high-stakes twenty-four hour period, in order to clear their own names.

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Weight0.218 kg
Dimensions19.6 × 13 × 2 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

294

Language

English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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